Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself.

Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.

Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to everything that goes on inside us, we are bound to go crazy sooner or later, I thought.

Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together.